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by eximius 2106 days ago
Maybe. Others have speculated maybe you have imposter syndrome. But maybe you're right.

So?

There is a wide spectrum of talent out there and you don't have to be in the top 1%, 10%, 50%, etc to be useful and successful.

My go to weed out question is 'write a function that, given a list of numbers, returns the min, max, median, and mean'. If you can do that, you'd have gotten an interview with me because I encountered so few who could just do that. People who had 'senior' titles at companies for years.